In a recent episode of Act Out! host Eleanor Goldfield reported on the surprising intersection of the prison reform movement and environmental activism.

Plans to build a $444 million maximum security prison at the site of a disused mountaintop removal coal mine in Kentucky brought these two groups together in a protest Monday in Washington, D.C., where activists marched on the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice.

In a recent episode of Act Out! host Eleanor Goldfield looked into Monsanto’s secretive history beyond glyphosate and GMO seeds:

“For 4 decades Monsanto has been poisoning this town (and others) with a poison so serious, even their own scientists note it as “100% kill.” Nope, it’s not Roundup and it’s not Agent Orange. Meet Monsanto’s poison that you might never hear about again after this Congress wipes the slate clean.”

In this week’s Fracked Earth News, top energy and climate headlines include:

__Attention in Paris turned to health and the climate with “an unprecedented alliance of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from every part of the health sector … calling on governments to reach a strong agreement at the UN climate negotiations.” 1700 organizations, 8200 hospitals and other facilities, 13 million professionals. Impressive.

__India has now snatched the title “Dirtiest Air in the World” from China. Particulate matter in the Delhi air at “hazardous” levels lately, and in Mumbai and Hyderabad, too. Causes: “exhaust, dust, smoke from wood and dung-fired stoves, burning leaves and industrial output.”

__Shell’s Puget Sound refinery released “hydrogen sulfide, hydrocarbons, mercaptans and pyrophoric iron” into the air during a routine shut-down. People on the nearby Swinomish Reservation got sick and Shell got fined $77,000. Exact impact on wildlife and aquatic reserves isn’t known.